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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Crafts

experimental reconstruction

 

 

& just digging

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

experimental archaeology

 

 

Conferences

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Documentary record search

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

more comparative studies

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

artefactual evidence