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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Crafts

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

experimental archaeology

 

 

Documentary record search

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Conferences

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

artefactual evidence

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

more comparative studies

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

& just digging