comparing excavated sites

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

more comparative studies

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

experimental archaeology

 

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Documentary record search

Conferences

Crafts

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

& just digging

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British