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Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Comparing excavated sites

Experimental reconstruction

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Artefactual evidence

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

More comparative studies

Conferences

Experimental Archaeology

Crafts

Recording artefacts in situ

Just digging

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