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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

experimental archaeology

 

 

Conferences

artefactual evidence

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Crafts

& just digging

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

more comparative studies

 

 

Documentary record search

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British