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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

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Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

experimental archaeology

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

more comparative studies

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

& just digging

artefactual evidence

 

 

Crafts

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

experimental reconstruction

 

 

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