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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

artefactual evidence

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

& just digging

Conferences

comparing excavated sites

 

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

more comparative studies

 

 

Crafts

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

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