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experimental reconstruction

& just digging

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Highly vesicular bloomery slag


Activity frequency mapping (iron works)
artefactual evidence

Conferences
experimental archaeology

more comparative studies

comparing excavated sites


Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection
Crafts

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone