Home

Comparing excavated sites

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Crafts

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Just digging

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Recording artefacts in situ

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Experimental reconstruction

More comparative studies

Experimental Archaeology

Conferences

Documentary record search

Artefactual evidence

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)