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Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

artefactual evidence

 

 

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

& just digging

more comparative studies

 

 

Documentary record search

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Conferences

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Crafts

experimental archaeology