Home

Experimental reconstruction

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Artefactual evidence

Comparing excavated sites

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Recording artefacts in situ

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

More comparative studies

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Conferences

Documentary record search

Just digging

Crafts

Experimental Archaeology