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Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)
comparing excavated sites

experimental archaeology


Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Documentary record search
Conferences
& just digging


Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection
more comparative studies

artefactual evidence


Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone
experimental reconstruction


Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)
Crafts