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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

artefactual evidence

 

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

& just digging

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

experimental reconstruction

 

 

more comparative studies

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Crafts

comparing excavated sites

 

 

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Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection