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Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

& just digging

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Crafts

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

experimental archaeology

 

 

more comparative studies

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Documentary record search

Conferences

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

artefactual evidence