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Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

& just digging

artefactual evidence

 

 

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Crafts

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Documentary record search

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Conferences

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

more comparative studies

 

 

experimental archaeology