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Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Conferences

experimental reconstruction

 

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

& just digging

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

more comparative studies

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Crafts

Documentary record search

artefactual evidence