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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

experimental reconstruction

 

 

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Documentary record search

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

artefactual evidence

 

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

& just digging

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Conferences

Crafts

more comparative studies

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone