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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Experimental Archaeology

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Crafts

More comparative studies

Conferences

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Recording artefacts in situ

Comparing excavated sites

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Experimental reconstruction

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Just digging

Artefactual evidence