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Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Documentary record search

Crafts

Comparing excavated sites

& just digging

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Conferences

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Recording artefacts in situ

experimental archaeology

 

 

Artefactual evidence

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Experimental reconstruction