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Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Documentary record search

experimental archaeology

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

& just digging

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

artefactual evidence

 

 

Crafts

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Conferences

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

more comparative studies