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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)
experimental archaeology


Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British
comparing excavated sites


Activity frequency mapping (iron works)
Conferences

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)
& just digging
artefactual evidence


Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection
experimental reconstruction

Crafts
more comparative studies


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