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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

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artefactual evidence

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Crafts

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

experimental archaeology

 

 

Conferences

& just digging

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

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