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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Recording artefacts in situ

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Just digging

Experimental reconstruction

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Comparing excavated sites

Documentary record search

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Artefactual evidence

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Crafts

Experimental Archaeology

More comparative studies

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Conferences