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Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Artefactual evidence

& just digging

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Experimental reconstruction

Recording artefacts in situ

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

experimental archaeology

 

 

more comparative studies

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Conferences

Documentary record search

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Comparing excavated sites

Crafts