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Time Team Big Dig
www.channel4.com/history/microsites/B/bigdig/
pit_report/index.jsp?pit_id=1847497_01
These are the web pages for the original Time Team Big Dig test pit at Oakamoor.

GeoArch
www.geoarch.demon.co.uk/timyoung.html
GeoArch is the Cardiff-based consultancy of Tim Young, who recreated a medieval blast furnace for Time Team at Oakamoor. The website includes information on various aspects of archaeometallurgy and geoarchaeological research associated with the exploitation of iron. It includes detailed diaries of a programme of experimental iron-making, based at the Museum of Welsh Life, Cardiff, including furnaces of the kind seen on Time Team.

Staffordshire Industrial Archaeology Society:
Blooming with Time Team at Oakamoor
http://www.staffsia.org.uk/timeteam.htm
SIAS chairman Jim Andrews' account of his involvement with the experimental furnace at Oakamoor.

Historical Metallurgy Society
www.hist-met.org
1 Carlton House Gardens
London SW1 5DB
The Historical Metallurgy Society provides a forum for exchange of information and research in historical metallurgy. It aims to gain recognition for the subject from the community at large and to be consulted when issues of preservation and recording arise. Established in 1962, the society covers all aspects of the history of metals and associated materials, production and use, technology and economics; from prehistory to the present. Publishers of Historical Metallurgy – see Further reading.

Ancient Metallurgy Research Group
www.bradford.ac.uk/archsci/depart/resgrp/
amrg/amrginfo.htm
The Ancient Metallurgy Research Group was established in 1992 within the Department of Archaeological Sciences at Bradford University. The AMRG encourages investigations into all areas of ancient and historical metallurgy, including mining, primary metal production, artefact manufacturing, slag and residue studies, cultural aspects of metallurgy and metals, geophysical survey of production sites, and archaeomagnetic dating of high-temperature features.

The website has links to field projects organised by the group, including the North Yorkshire Moors Ironworking Project and:

Experimental Iron Smelting at Rievaulx Abbey
www.bradford.ac.uk/archsci/
depart/resgrp/amrg/Rievaulx02/Rievaulx.htm
Extremely well-illustrated web pages (with slow download time as a result) detailing the construction and operation of a bloomery shaft furnace.

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