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comparing excavated sites

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

experimental archaeology

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

more comparative studies

 

 

Conferences

artefactual evidence

 

 

& just digging

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Crafts

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

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