Home

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Conferences

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Documentary record search

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Experimental reconstruction

Crafts

Recording artefacts in situ

Artefactual evidence

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Just digging

Experimental Archaeology

More comparative studies

Comparing excavated sites