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Artefactual evidence

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Conferences

Experimental Archaeology

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Recording artefacts in situ

Comparing excavated sites

More comparative studies

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Just digging

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Crafts

Experimental reconstruction

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

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