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Conferences

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Experimental reconstruction

Just digging

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

More comparative studies

Artefactual evidence

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Crafts

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Experimental Archaeology

Documentary record search

Recording artefacts in situ

Comparing excavated sites

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)