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comparing excavated sites

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Conferences

& just digging

Documentary record search

artefactual evidence

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

experimental archaeology

 

 

more comparative studies

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Crafts

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

experimental reconstruction