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Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

experimental archaeology

 

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Crafts

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Documentary record search

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

more comparative studies

 

 

& just digging

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)