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Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

experimental archaeology

 

 

& just digging

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Documentary record search

Crafts

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Conferences

artefactual evidence

 

 

more comparative studies

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

experimental reconstruction