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Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Just digging

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Conferences

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Comparing excavated sites

Experimental reconstruction

Experimental Archaeology

Documentary record search

Artefactual evidence

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Crafts

Recording artefacts in situ

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

More comparative studies

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)