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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Conferences

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Artefactual evidence

Crafts

Recording artefacts in situ

Just digging

Comparing excavated sites

Experimental Archaeology

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Experimental reconstruction

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

More comparative studies

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

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