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experimental reconstruction


Highly vesicular bloomery slag
Crafts
& just digging
artefactual evidence

more comparative studies


Activity frequency mapping (iron works)
comparing excavated sites

experimental archaeology


Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)


Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)
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