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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

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Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Comparing excavated sites

Recording artefacts in situ

Experimental Archaeology

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Experimental reconstruction

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Artefactual evidence

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British