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comparing excavated sites

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Crafts

artefactual evidence

 

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Conferences

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

more comparative studies

 

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

& just digging