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Crafts

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

artefactual evidence

 

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Conferences

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Documentary record search

more comparative studies

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

experimental archaeology

 

 

& just digging

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone