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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Conferences

Just digging

Comparing excavated sites

Documentary record search

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Crafts

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Experimental reconstruction

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Artefactual evidence

Recording artefacts in situ

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Experimental Archaeology

More comparative studies