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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Recording artefacts in situ

Experimental reconstruction

Comparing excavated sites

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Crafts

Documentary record search

Just digging

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Artefactual evidence

Conferences

More comparative studies

Experimental Archaeology

Highly vesicular bloomery slag