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Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

experimental archaeology

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Crafts

artefactual evidence

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

more comparative studies

 

 

Conferences

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

& just digging

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

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