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comparing excavated sites

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

artefactual evidence

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

& just digging

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

more comparative studies

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Conferences

Documentary record search

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

experimental archaeology

 

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Crafts