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Recording artefacts in situ

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Comparing excavated sites

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Experimental Archaeology

Just digging

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Experimental reconstruction

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Crafts

Conferences

Artefactual evidence

More comparative studies

Documentary record search

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British