Home

Highly vesicular bloomery slag
comparing excavated sites


Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)
more comparative studies

experimental reconstruction

& just digging
Crafts


Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British
artefactual evidence


Documentary record search

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection
Conferences

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone
experimental archaeology


Activity frequency mapping (iron works)