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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Just digging

Conferences

Comparing excavated sites

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Artefactual evidence

Documentary record search

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Experimental reconstruction

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Experimental Archaeology

Recording artefacts in situ