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comparing excavated sites

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Crafts

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

artefactual evidence

 

 

Documentary record search

experimental archaeology

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

experimental reconstruction

 

 

more comparative studies