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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

experimental archaeology

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Crafts

more comparative studies

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

comparing excavated sites

 

 

& just digging

Conferences

Documentary record search

artefactual evidence