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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

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experimental reconstruction

 

 

Conferences

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

artefactual evidence

 

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

Crafts

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

more comparative studies

 

 

& just digging