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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

more comparative studies

 

 

Conferences

experimental reconstruction

 

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Crafts

experimental archaeology

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

& just digging

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British