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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Artefactual evidence

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

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Experimental Archaeology

Just digging

Crafts

Comparing excavated sites

Recording artefacts in situ

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Conferences

Experimental reconstruction

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)