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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

more comparative studies

 

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

experimental archaeology

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Conferences

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Crafts

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

& just digging