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experimental reconstruction



Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)
& just digging
more comparative studies


Documentary record search
artefactual evidence


Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone
Crafts

Highly vesicular bloomery slag
experimental archaeology


Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

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