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Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Documentary record search
artefactual evidence

Conferences
more comparative studies


Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

& just digging

Highly vesicular bloomery slag
experimental archaeology


Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British
experimental reconstruction

comparing excavated sites


Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)
Crafts