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Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Conferences

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

& just digging

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

more comparative studies

 

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Crafts

comparing excavated sites

 

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

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