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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

& just digging

Comparing excavated sites

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

experimental archaeology

 

 

Documentary record search

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Artefactual evidence

more comparative studies

 

 

Crafts

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Experimental reconstruction

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Recording artefacts in situ

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Conferences

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection