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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

more comparative studies

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

experimental reconstruction

 

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

Documentary record search

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Crafts

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Conferences

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

artefactual evidence

 

 

& just digging