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experimental reconstruction

 

 

more comparative studies

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Documentary record search

Conferences

Crafts

artefactual evidence

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

& just digging

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

experimental archaeology

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag