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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Crafts

Documentary record search

artefactual evidence

 

 

Conferences

experimental reconstruction

 

 

& just digging

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

experimental archaeology