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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Just digging

Experimental Archaeology

Experimental reconstruction

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More comparative studies

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Artefactual evidence

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Crafts

Comparing excavated sites

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Recording artefacts in situ

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British