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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

artefactual evidence

 

 

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Highly vesicular bloomery slag

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

experimental archaeology

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

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Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

& just digging

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Crafts

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