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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Recording artefacts in situ

Artefactual evidence

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Just digging

Conferences

Documentary record search

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Experimental Archaeology

Comparing excavated sites

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Crafts

More comparative studies

Experimental reconstruction