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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Conferences

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Recording artefacts in situ

Artefactual evidence

Comparing excavated sites

Experimental reconstruction

More comparative studies

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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Experimental Archaeology

Just digging

Crafts

Highly vesicular bloomery slag