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comparing excavated sites

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Conferences

experimental archaeology

 

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Documentary record search

Crafts

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

more comparative studies