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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

more comparative studies

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

& just digging

artefactual evidence

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Conferences

Documentary record search

comparing excavated sites

 

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

experimental archaeology

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Crafts

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)