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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Artefactual evidence

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Comparing excavated sites

Conferences

Experimental Archaeology

Crafts

Experimental reconstruction

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

More comparative studies

Documentary record search

Just digging

Recording artefacts in situ

Highly vesicular bloomery slag