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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)
Crafts

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)
artefactual evidence


Highly vesicular bloomery slag
Conferences
more comparative studies

experimental reconstruction


Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone
comparing excavated sites

& just digging
experimental archaeology


Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British