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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Just digging

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

More comparative studies

Artefactual evidence

Recording artefacts in situ

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Documentary record search

Comparing excavated sites

Crafts

Experimental Archaeology

Conferences

Experimental reconstruction

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)