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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)
Crafts

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experimental archaeology

comparing excavated sites

experimental reconstruction

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artefactual evidence


Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag
more comparative studies


Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British
& just digging