Home

Documentary record search

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

& just digging

experimental archaeology

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

more comparative studies

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Conferences

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Crafts

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

artefactual evidence