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Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Conferences

more comparative studies

 

 

Documentary record search

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Crafts

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

& just digging

experimental archaeology

 

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

artefactual evidence

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)