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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Crafts

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

artefactual evidence

 

 

& just digging

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

experimental reconstruction

 

 

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Conferences

experimental archaeology

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

more comparative studies

 

 

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