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Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

experimental archaeology

 

 

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Crafts

more comparative studies

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

artefactual evidence

 

 

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Documentary record search

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Conferences

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)