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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Documentary record search

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Conferences

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

artefactual evidence

 

 

Crafts

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

more comparative studies

 

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

& just digging

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)