Skip to main content Skip to footer

Home

Conferences

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Experimental Archaeology

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Documentary record search

Just digging

More comparative studies

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Recording artefacts in situ

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Crafts

Comparing excavated sites

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Experimental reconstruction

Artefactual evidence

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British