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artefactual evidence


Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British
experimental reconstruction


Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection
comparing excavated sites

& just digging
experimental archaeology


Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)
more comparative studies


Conferences

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone