Skip to main content Skip to footer

Home

Crafts

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Comparing excavated sites

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

More comparative studies

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Artefactual evidence

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Recording artefacts in situ

Conferences

Just digging

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Documentary record search

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Experimental reconstruction

Experimental Archaeology