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artefactual evidence

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

comparing excavated sites

 

 

& just digging

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

experimental archaeology

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

more comparative studies

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Crafts

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Conferences

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