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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

artefactual evidence

 

 

comparing excavated sites

 

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

Crafts

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

& just digging

Conferences

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

more comparative studies

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

experimental reconstruction