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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

comparing excavated sites

 

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

experimental archaeology

 

 

Documentary record search

Crafts

artefactual evidence

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Conferences

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

& just digging

more comparative studies