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Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

experimental reconstruction

 

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

comparing excavated sites

 

 

more comparative studies

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Conferences

Crafts

& just digging

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

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