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comparing excavated sites

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

& just digging

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Crafts

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

experimental archaeology

 

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Documentary record search

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Conferences

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

more comparative studies