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comparing excavated sites


Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag
more comparative studies

Conferences
Crafts

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection
artefactual evidence

experimental reconstruction

experimental archaeology


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Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone


Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)