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Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Crafts

more comparative studies

 

 

& just digging

Conferences

experimental archaeology

 

 

Documentary record search

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

artefactual evidence