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artefactual evidence

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

experimental archaeology

 

 

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Crafts

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

more comparative studies

 

 

& just digging

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