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Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Conferences

artefactual evidence

 

 

Crafts

& just digging

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Documentary record search

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

experimental archaeology

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

experimental reconstruction

 

 

more comparative studies

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British