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Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Crafts

& just digging

experimental reconstruction

 

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

comparing excavated sites

 

 

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

more comparative studies

 

 

Conferences

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

artefactual evidence

 

 

Documentary record search

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)