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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Artefactual evidence

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Conferences

Crafts

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More comparative studies

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Recording artefacts in situ

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Experimental reconstruction

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Experimental Archaeology

Comparing excavated sites

Just digging