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Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Conferences

more comparative studies

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

& just digging

comparing excavated sites

 

 

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Crafts