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Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Crafts

artefactual evidence

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Conferences

experimental archaeology

 

 

comparing excavated sites

 

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

more comparative studies

 

 

& just digging

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection