Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

experimental reconstruction

 

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

Conferences

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Crafts

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Documentary record search

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

& just digging

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

more comparative studies

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

artefactual evidence