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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

artefactual evidence

 

 

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

experimental archaeology

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Crafts

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Conferences

more comparative studies

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

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Highly vesicular bloomery slag