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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)
& just digging
comparing excavated sites



Activity frequency mapping (iron works)
Conferences
experimental reconstruction

more comparative studies


Highly vesicular bloomery slag
experimental archaeology


Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection
artefactual evidence


Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British
Crafts