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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

more comparative studies

 

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Crafts

& just digging

Experimental reconstruction

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Documentary record search

Recording artefacts in situ

Artefactual evidence

Comparing excavated sites

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)