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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

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Artefactual evidence

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

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Experimental Archaeology

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Experimental reconstruction

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Crafts

Comparing excavated sites

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Recording artefacts in situ

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