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Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Crafts

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

& just digging

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

experimental reconstruction

 

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

Documentary record search

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

more comparative studies

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

artefactual evidence

 

 

Conferences