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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Comparing excavated sites

More comparative studies

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Crafts

Experimental Archaeology

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Recording artefacts in situ

Experimental reconstruction

Artefactual evidence

Conferences

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