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experimental reconstruction

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

artefactual evidence

 

 

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

more comparative studies

 

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Documentary record search

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Crafts

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

& just digging

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone