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Just digging

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Comparing excavated sites

More comparative studies

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Documentary record search

Conferences

Experimental reconstruction

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Artefactual evidence

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Experimental Archaeology

Recording artefacts in situ

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Crafts