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Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

comparing excavated sites

 

 

& just digging

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

artefactual evidence

 

 

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Documentary record search

more comparative studies

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

experimental archaeology

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Conferences

Crafts

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection