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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

comparing excavated sites

 

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

& just digging

Conferences

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

experimental archaeology

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

more comparative studies

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

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Crafts

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection