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Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Recording artefacts in situ

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Artefactual evidence

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

& just digging

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Conferences

Documentary record search

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

more comparative studies

 

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

Comparing excavated sites

Crafts

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Experimental reconstruction