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comparing excavated sites

Crafts

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)
Conferences

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)
artefactual evidence

experimental reconstruction

more comparative studies


Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

experimental archaeology


Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British
& just digging

Highly vesicular bloomery slag