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Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

more comparative studies

 

 

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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

comparing excavated sites

 

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

artefactual evidence

 

 

Crafts

& just digging

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Conferences

experimental reconstruction