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Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Documentary record search

experimental archaeology

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Conferences

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

more comparative studies

 

 

& just digging

artefactual evidence

 

 

Crafts

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

experimental reconstruction