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Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Conferences

more comparative studies

 

 

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

& just digging

experimental archaeology

 

 

Crafts

artefactual evidence

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag