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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

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Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

& just digging

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

artefactual evidence

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Conferences

Crafts

experimental archaeology

 

 

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

more comparative studies

 

 

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone