Home

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Artefactual evidence

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Recording artefacts in situ

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Experimental Archaeology

Comparing excavated sites

Documentary record search

Conferences

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Crafts

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Experimental reconstruction

More comparative studies

Just digging