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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

& just digging

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Crafts

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

more comparative studies

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Documentary record search

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

artefactual evidence

 

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

Conferences

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone