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Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

experimental archaeology

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

artefactual evidence

 

 

Crafts

more comparative studies

 

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Documentary record search

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

& just digging

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Conferences