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Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Crafts

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Recording artefacts in situ

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Experimental reconstruction

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Artefactual evidence

Just digging

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Conferences

Experimental Archaeology

Comparing excavated sites

More comparative studies

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