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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

artefactual evidence

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Documentary record search

Crafts

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Conferences

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

& just digging

experimental archaeology

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

more comparative studies

 

 

experimental reconstruction