Home

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Experimental Archaeology

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Conferences

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Just digging

Artefactual evidence

Comparing excavated sites

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Recording artefacts in situ

More comparative studies

Documentary record search

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Crafts

Experimental reconstruction

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)