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Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

artefactual evidence

 

 

Documentary record search

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

experimental archaeology

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

& just digging

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Crafts

Conferences

more comparative studies