Home

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Documentary record search

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

more comparative studies

 

 

& just digging

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

experimental archaeology

 

 

Crafts

artefactual evidence

 

 

Conferences

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)