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Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Crafts

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

experimental archaeology

 

 

Documentary record search

Conferences

comparing excavated sites

 

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

& just digging