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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

experimental reconstruction

 

 

more comparative studies

 

 

Crafts

Documentary record search

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

experimental archaeology

 

 

Conferences

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

& just digging

artefactual evidence

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)