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experimental reconstruction

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

& just digging

Conferences

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

artefactual evidence

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Documentary record search

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

experimental archaeology

 

 

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Crafts

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

more comparative studies