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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

more comparative studies

 

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

Crafts

Documentary record search

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Conferences

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

& just digging

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

experimental archaeology

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

comparing excavated sites