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Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

& just digging

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Crafts

artefactual evidence

 

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

more comparative studies

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Documentary record search

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Conferences

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

experimental archaeology