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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

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Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Conferences

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

experimental archaeology

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

more comparative studies

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

experimental reconstruction

 

 

& just digging

artefactual evidence