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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Crafts

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

more comparative studies

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Conferences

artefactual evidence

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

comparing excavated sites

 

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Documentary record search

experimental reconstruction

 

 

& just digging