experimental reconstruction

 

 

more comparative studies

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Documentary record search

& just digging

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

experimental archaeology

 

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Crafts

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Conferences