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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Experimental Archaeology

Comparing excavated sites

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Crafts

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Just digging

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Artefactual evidence

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Recording artefacts in situ

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

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Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag