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Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Experimental reconstruction

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Artefactual evidence

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Conferences

Comparing excavated sites

Recording artefacts in situ

Documentary record search

Just digging

More comparative studies

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Experimental Archaeology

Crafts