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Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

more comparative studies

 

 

Conferences

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Crafts

Documentary record search

& just digging

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

comparing excavated sites

 

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

experimental archaeology

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)