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Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone
Crafts

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)
more comparative studies

artefactual evidence

& just digging

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Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)
comparing excavated sites


Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)
experimental reconstruction


experimental archaeology

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