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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Artefactual evidence

Recording artefacts in situ

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

More comparative studies

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Just digging

Documentary record search

Comparing excavated sites

Crafts

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Experimental Archaeology

Conferences

Experimental reconstruction

Highly vesicular bloomery slag