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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

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Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Crafts

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Artefactual evidence

Comparing excavated sites

Recording artefacts in situ

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Experimental reconstruction

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Just digging

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Highly vesicular bloomery slag