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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

& just digging

more comparative studies

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Documentary record search

Crafts

experimental archaeology

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

artefactual evidence

 

 

Conferences

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British