Home

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Crafts

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

experimental archaeology

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Documentary record search

artefactual evidence

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

& just digging

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Conferences

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

more comparative studies