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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Documentary record search

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Experimental reconstruction

Artefactual evidence

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Experimental Archaeology

Recording artefacts in situ

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Crafts

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Comparing excavated sites

More comparative studies