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Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

& just digging

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

more comparative studies

 

 

Conferences

experimental archaeology

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Documentary record search

Crafts

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

comparing excavated sites