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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Experimental reconstruction

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Crafts

Just digging

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Artefactual evidence

Conferences

Comparing excavated sites

More comparative studies

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Experimental Archaeology

Documentary record search

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Recording artefacts in situ