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Experimental reconstruction

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

More comparative studies

Just digging

Crafts

Comparing excavated sites

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Artefactual evidence

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Conferences

Experimental Archaeology

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Recording artefacts in situ

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