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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

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Experimental reconstruction

Recording artefacts in situ

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Experimental Archaeology

Just digging

Artefactual evidence

Crafts

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Conferences

Comparing excavated sites

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

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