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comparing excavated sites


Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)
& just digging
experimental reconstruction



Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)
experimental archaeology


Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection
more comparative studies


Activity frequency mapping (iron works)
artefactual evidence


Documentary record search

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone
Crafts
Conferences

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British