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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

experimental archaeology

 

 

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

& just digging

artefactual evidence

 

 

more comparative studies

 

 

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Crafts

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British