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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Artefactual evidence

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Experimental reconstruction

& just digging

Crafts

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Recording artefacts in situ

Documentary record search

Comparing excavated sites

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

more comparative studies

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Conferences

experimental archaeology