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Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

more comparative studies

 

 

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Documentary record search

comparing excavated sites

 

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Conferences

artefactual evidence

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

& just digging

Crafts

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Highly vesicular bloomery slag