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Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Conferences

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British
comparing excavated sites

& just digging
experimental reconstruction


Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Highly vesicular bloomery slag
experimental archaeology


Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)
more comparative studies

Crafts