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Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Documentary record search

comparing excavated sites

 

 

& just digging

artefactual evidence

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Crafts

more comparative studies

 

 

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

Conferences

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone