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Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

artefactual evidence

 

 

Documentary record search

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Crafts

more comparative studies

 

 

Conferences

& just digging

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

experimental archaeology