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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British
experimental archaeology


Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone
& just digging
Conferences
Crafts

more comparative studies

comparing excavated sites


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Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection
experimental reconstruction

artefactual evidence


Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)