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Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Crafts

Experimental reconstruction

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Just digging

Conferences

Recording artefacts in situ

Artefactual evidence

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

More comparative studies

Experimental Archaeology

Comparing excavated sites

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British