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Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Documentary record search

artefactual evidence

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Crafts

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

experimental archaeology

 

 

comparing excavated sites

 

 

& just digging

more comparative studies