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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Conferences

experimental archaeology

 

 

comparing excavated sites

 

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Crafts

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

& just digging

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

more comparative studies

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone