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Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

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Artefactual evidence

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Crafts

Experimental reconstruction

Just digging

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Recording artefacts in situ

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Comparing excavated sites

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

More comparative studies

Experimental Archaeology