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Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Conferences

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Crafts

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

experimental archaeology

 

 

Documentary record search

& just digging

artefactual evidence

 

 

comparing excavated sites

 

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

more comparative studies