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Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

experimental archaeology

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

more comparative studies

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Documentary record search

experimental reconstruction

 

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

& just digging

Conferences

Crafts

 

recording artefacts in situ