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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Crafts

experimental archaeology

 

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

Documentary record search

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

& just digging

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Conferences

more comparative studies

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone