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comparing excavated sites

experimental reconstruction


Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Documentary record search

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)
artefactual evidence

experimental archaeology

Crafts
Conferences

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British
more comparative studies


Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone
& just digging