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Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

experimental archaeology

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

more comparative studies

 

 

Documentary record search

Recording artefacts in situ

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Conferences

Crafts

& just digging

Artefactual evidence

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Experimental reconstruction

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Comparing excavated sites