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Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

experimental archaeology

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

artefactual evidence

 

 

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Documentary record search

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Crafts

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

more comparative studies

 

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

& just digging

Conferences