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Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

comparing excavated sites

 

 

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

more comparative studies

 

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

artefactual evidence

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

& just digging

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