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Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

more comparative studies

 

 

Documentary record search

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

experimental archaeology

 

 

Crafts

experimental reconstruction

 

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Conferences

& just digging