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Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Crafts

Conferences

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

& just digging

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

experimental archaeology

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Documentary record search

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

comparing excavated sites

 

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

more comparative studies