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Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Crafts

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

more comparative studies

 

 

comparing excavated sites

 

 

& just digging

artefactual evidence

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Documentary record search

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

experimental archaeology

 

 

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