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Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

more comparative studies

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Conferences

experimental archaeology

 

 

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Crafts

& just digging

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

artefactual evidence

 

 

Documentary record search

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

experimental reconstruction

 

 

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)