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experimental reconstruction

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Crafts

experimental archaeology

 

 

& just digging

Conferences

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Documentary record search

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

more comparative studies

 

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

comparing excavated sites