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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Conferences

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

more comparative studies

 

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Crafts

comparing excavated sites

 

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

& just digging

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Documentary record search

Highly vesicular bloomery slag