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Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Documentary record search

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

artefactual evidence

 

 

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

more comparative studies

 

 

Crafts

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

experimental archaeology

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Conferences