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Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

artefactual evidence

 

 

& just digging

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

experimental reconstruction

 

 

more comparative studies

 

 

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

experimental archaeology

 

 

Conferences

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Documentary record search

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Crafts