Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Crafts

Documentary record search

Conferences

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

& just digging

experimental reconstruction

 

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

more comparative studies

 

 

comparing excavated sites

 

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)