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comparing excavated sites

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

more comparative studies

 

 

Crafts

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Documentary record search

Conferences

experimental archaeology

 

 

& just digging

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)