Highly vesicular bloomery slag

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Documentary record search

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

experimental archaeology

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

more comparative studies

 

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Conferences

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

artefactual evidence

 

 

Crafts

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

& just digging