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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

experimental reconstruction

 

 

& just digging

experimental archaeology

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Crafts

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Conferences

more comparative studies

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Documentary record search

comparing excavated sites

 

 

artefactual evidence