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Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

experimental archaeology

 

 

& just digging

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

comparing excavated sites

 

 

more comparative studies

 

 

Crafts

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Documentary record search

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Conferences

artefactual evidence