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Experimental reconstruction

Just digging

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Experimental Archaeology

Conferences

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Artefactual evidence

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Crafts

Documentary record search

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Recording artefacts in situ

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Comparing excavated sites

More comparative studies