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Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Experimental reconstruction

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Crafts

Conferences

experimental archaeology

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Recording artefacts in situ

Comparing excavated sites

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

& just digging

Documentary record search

Artefactual evidence

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

more comparative studies