Home

Experimental reconstruction

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Conferences

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Artefactual evidence

More comparative studies

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Experimental Archaeology

Just digging

Documentary record search

Recording artefacts in situ

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Crafts

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Comparing excavated sites

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British