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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Conferences

Experimental reconstruction

Artefactual evidence

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Comparing excavated sites

& just digging

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Recording artefacts in situ

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

more comparative studies

 

 

Crafts

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

experimental archaeology