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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

experimental reconstruction

 

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Conferences

& just digging

artefactual evidence

 

 

Crafts

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Documentary record search

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

comparing excavated sites

 

 

more comparative studies