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Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

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experimental reconstruction

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

comparing excavated sites

 

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

& just digging

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

more comparative studies

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Crafts

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

experimental archaeology

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Conferences

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone