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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Crafts

Documentary record search

Experimental Archaeology

More comparative studies

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Recording artefacts in situ

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Just digging

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Conferences

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Experimental reconstruction

Comparing excavated sites

Artefactual evidence