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Just digging

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Artefactual evidence

Experimental Archaeology

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Experimental reconstruction

Conferences

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

More comparative studies

Comparing excavated sites

Documentary record search

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Recording artefacts in situ