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Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

more comparative studies

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

experimental reconstruction

 

 

& just digging

Crafts

artefactual evidence

 

 

Documentary record search

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

Conferences

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection