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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Conferences

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Crafts

experimental archaeology

 

 

more comparative studies

 

 

Documentary record search

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

artefactual evidence

 

 

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

& just digging