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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Comparing excavated sites

Experimental Archaeology

More comparative studies

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Conferences

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Artefactual evidence

Recording artefacts in situ

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Just digging

Crafts

Documentary record search

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Experimental reconstruction