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Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

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comparing excavated sites

 

 

Crafts

 

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Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

& just digging

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

experimental archaeology

 

 

more comparative studies

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

artefactual evidence

 

 

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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British