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& just digging

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Documentary record search

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

experimental archaeology

 

 

more comparative studies

 

 

Crafts

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

artefactual evidence