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Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Conferences

Just digging

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Documentary record search

Crafts

Experimental Archaeology

Artefactual evidence

Recording artefacts in situ

More comparative studies

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Comparing excavated sites

Experimental reconstruction

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British