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Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

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Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

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more comparative studies

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

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Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British