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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)
comparing excavated sites


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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Highly vesicular bloomery slag
artefactual evidence


Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

experimental archaeology

& just digging
experimental reconstruction


Activity frequency mapping (iron works)
Crafts

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)
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