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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Comparing excavated sites

Crafts

Conferences

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Just digging

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Recording artefacts in situ

Experimental reconstruction

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

More comparative studies

Artefactual evidence

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Experimental Archaeology

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