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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Conferences

Just digging

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

More comparative studies

Crafts

Comparing excavated sites

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Experimental reconstruction

Recording artefacts in situ

Experimental Archaeology

Artefactual evidence

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British