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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Just digging

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Comparing excavated sites

Experimental reconstruction

Experimental Archaeology

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Conferences

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Crafts

More comparative studies

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Documentary record search

Recording artefacts in situ

Artefactual evidence