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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
