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Just digging

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Experimental Archaeology

Comparing excavated sites

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Experimental reconstruction

Artefactual evidence

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Conferences

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

More comparative studies

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Crafts

Recording artefacts in situ

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

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