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experimental reconstruction

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

experimental archaeology

 

 

Documentary record search

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

more comparative studies

 

 

Conferences

artefactual evidence

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

& just digging

Crafts

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)