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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

experimental reconstruction

 

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

Documentary record search

Conferences

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

artefactual evidence

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

more comparative studies

 

 

Crafts

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

& just digging

comparing excavated sites