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Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)
more comparative studies


Activity frequency mapping (iron works)
Crafts
comparing excavated sites

experimental archaeology


Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)
experimental reconstruction


Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Highly vesicular bloomery slag
artefactual evidence


& just digging

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