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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Recording artefacts in situ

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

More comparative studies

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Experimental reconstruction

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Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Comparing excavated sites

Artefactual evidence

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Experimental Archaeology

Crafts

Just digging

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection