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Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Crafts

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Conferences

Documentary record search

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

experimental archaeology

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

artefactual evidence

 

 

more comparative studies

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

comparing excavated sites

 

 

experimental reconstruction