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Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

& just digging

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

more comparative studies

 

 

comparing excavated sites

 

 

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Crafts

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Conferences

experimental reconstruction

 

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

experimental archaeology

 

 

Documentary record search

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Highly vesicular bloomery slag