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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Crafts

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Documentary record search

more comparative studies

 

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

& just digging

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

experimental archaeology