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experimental reconstruction

 

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

more comparative studies

 

 

Conferences

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Documentary record search

experimental archaeology

 

 

& just digging

Crafts

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone