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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

artefactual evidence

 

 

Crafts

more comparative studies

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

& just digging

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

experimental archaeology

 

 

Conferences

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British