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experimental reconstruction

 

 

& just digging

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

experimental archaeology

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Documentary record search

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

artefactual evidence

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Crafts

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

more comparative studies

 

 

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Conferences

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)