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Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Crafts

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Conferences

& just digging

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

artefactual evidence

 

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

more comparative studies