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experimental reconstruction

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Conferences

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

& just digging

Crafts

Documentary record search

experimental archaeology

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

artefactual evidence

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

more comparative studies

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)