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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

more comparative studies

 

 

& just digging

Documentary record search

Crafts

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

artefactual evidence

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Conferences

experimental archaeology

 

 

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British