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Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

experimental archaeology

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Crafts

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

comparing excavated sites

 

 

& just digging

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Documentary record search

Conferences

more comparative studies

 

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

experimental reconstruction