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Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Documentary record search

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Recording artefacts in situ

Crafts

& just digging

more comparative studies

 

 

Experimental reconstruction

Artefactual evidence

Conferences

Comparing excavated sites

experimental archaeology

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British