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Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British
experimental archaeology

experimental reconstruction

Conferences

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)


Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)
comparing excavated sites


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Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)
Crafts
more comparative studies
