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comparing excavated sites

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

& just digging

experimental reconstruction

 

 

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

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