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Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Documentary record search

experimental archaeology

 

 

more comparative studies

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Crafts

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

Conferences

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

& just digging

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

experimental reconstruction