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Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

experimental reconstruction

 

 

more comparative studies

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Crafts

experimental archaeology

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Conferences

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

Documentary record search

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

& just digging