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Crafts

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Documentary record search

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Conferences

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

more comparative studies

 

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

& just digging

experimental archaeology

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

experimental reconstruction