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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

experimental archaeology

 

 

comparing excavated sites

 

 

& just digging

more comparative studies

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

experimental reconstruction

 

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Crafts

Documentary record search

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Conferences