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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

more comparative studies

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Documentary record search

artefactual evidence

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Crafts

experimental reconstruction

 

 

& just digging

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Conferences

experimental archaeology