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experimental reconstruction

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

artefactual evidence

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

more comparative studies

 

 

Crafts

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Documentary record search

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Conferences

experimental archaeology

 

 

& just digging

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

comparing excavated sites