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Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

artefactual evidence

 

 

more comparative studies

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Crafts

& just digging

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Documentary record search

Conferences

experimental reconstruction

 

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

 

recording artefacts in situ