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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

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