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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Conferences

Crafts

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Comparing excavated sites

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Documentary record search

More comparative studies

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Experimental reconstruction

Recording artefacts in situ

Experimental Archaeology

Artefactual evidence

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection