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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Artefactual evidence

Experimental Archaeology

Crafts

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Just digging

Experimental reconstruction

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Comparing excavated sites

Recording artefacts in situ

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

More comparative studies

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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection