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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Artefactual evidence

Experimental Archaeology

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Experimental reconstruction

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

More comparative studies

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Crafts

Just digging

Comparing excavated sites

Conferences

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Documentary record search

Recording artefacts in situ