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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

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Experimental reconstruction

experimental archaeology

 

 

Recording artefacts in situ

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

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Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection