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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Recording artefacts in situ

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Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Conferences

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Comparing excavated sites

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Experimental reconstruction

& just digging

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Artefactual evidence

experimental archaeology

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Crafts