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Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

comparing excavated sites

 

 

& just digging

Documentary record search

experimental archaeology

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

more comparative studies

 

 

Conferences

Crafts

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

artefactual evidence

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

experimental reconstruction

 

 

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Highly vesicular bloomery slag