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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

more comparative studies

 

 

Crafts

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Conferences

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Documentary record search

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

experimental archaeology

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British