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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

& just digging

Conferences

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Crafts

comparing excavated sites

 

 

more comparative studies

 

 

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

artefactual evidence

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

experimental archaeology

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag