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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Experimental reconstruction

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Just digging

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Recording artefacts in situ

Comparing excavated sites

Conferences

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Crafts

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Artefactual evidence

More comparative studies

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Experimental Archaeology

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