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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Conferences

Comparing excavated sites

Recording artefacts in situ

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Artefactual evidence

Crafts

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Experimental reconstruction

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

More comparative studies

Documentary record search

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Just digging

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Experimental Archaeology