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Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Experimental reconstruction

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Documentary record search

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Artefactual evidence

experimental archaeology

 

 

& just digging

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Crafts

more comparative studies

 

 

Conferences

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Recording artefacts in situ

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Comparing excavated sites

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection