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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Comparing excavated sites

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Artefactual evidence

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Crafts

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Experimental reconstruction

More comparative studies

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Experimental Archaeology

Just digging

Recording artefacts in situ

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