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Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

& just digging

Experimental reconstruction

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Crafts

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Comparing excavated sites

experimental archaeology

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Recording artefacts in situ

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Conferences

Artefactual evidence

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more comparative studies