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artefactual evidence

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

experimental archaeology

 

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Crafts

Conferences

Documentary record search

& just digging

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

more comparative studies

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone