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Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

artefactual evidence

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Documentary record search

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Crafts

experimental archaeology

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

more comparative studies

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

comparing excavated sites

 

 

& just digging

Conferences