Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

artefactual evidence

 

 

Documentary record search

Conferences

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

more comparative studies

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

& just digging

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

experimental archaeology

 

 

Crafts