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Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Conferences

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Crafts

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

experimental archaeology

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

experimental reconstruction

 

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

more comparative studies

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)