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Just digging

Experimental reconstruction

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Conferences

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Comparing excavated sites

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Artefactual evidence

Documentary record search

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Recording artefacts in situ

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Experimental Archaeology

More comparative studies

Crafts