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comparing excavated sites


Activity frequency mapping (iron works)
experimental archaeology

Conferences
experimental reconstruction


Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

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artefactual evidence



Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection
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Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)
Crafts