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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Artefactual evidence

Conferences

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Experimental reconstruction

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Recording artefacts in situ

Experimental Archaeology

Just digging

More comparative studies

Documentary record search

Comparing excavated sites

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Crafts

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British