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Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Experimental reconstruction

Recording artefacts in situ

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Comparing excavated sites

more comparative studies

 

 

Conferences

& just digging

Documentary record search

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Artefactual evidence

Crafts

experimental archaeology

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)