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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

comparing excavated sites

 

 

& just digging

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

artefactual evidence

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

experimental archaeology

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Crafts

Documentary record search

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Conferences

experimental reconstruction

 

 

more comparative studies