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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Experimental reconstruction

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Recording artefacts in situ

Conferences

Comparing excavated sites

Crafts

More comparative studies

Artefactual evidence

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Experimental Archaeology

Just digging

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection