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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

artefactual evidence

 

 

Crafts

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

experimental reconstruction

 

 

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Documentary record search

Conferences

more comparative studies

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

& just digging

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

experimental archaeology

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)