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Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British


Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)
& just digging

Highly vesicular bloomery slag
artefactual evidence


Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection
Crafts

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)