A collection of 35 largely technical lectures from the Sandbjerg Conference held in 1999, examine metallurgical evidence from Scandinavia and Northern Europe as well as reporting on developments in scientific analytical techniques. Divided into five sections, papers discuss particular types of iron production and settlement; regional studies; metallographic investigations of artefacts and sites; metallographic regional studies; Geophysical prospecting and archaeomagnetic dating. The majority of articles relate to Scandinavia but there are reports on iron-smelting and specific finds and sites in Italy, Germany, England, Greece, France, Ukraine and Wales.