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Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

artefactual evidence

 

 

Conferences

more comparative studies

 

 

Crafts

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

experimental archaeology

 

 

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