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experimental reconstruction

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

comparing excavated sites

 

 

& just digging

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

experimental archaeology

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

more comparative studies

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Documentary record search

Crafts

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

artefactual evidence