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comparing excavated sites


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Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection
more comparative studies

Conferences

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British
experimental archaeology


Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)
& just digging

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)
Crafts