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Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Experimental Archaeology

Recording artefacts in situ

Crafts

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Comparing excavated sites

Documentary record search

Just digging

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Artefactual evidence

Conferences

More comparative studies

Experimental reconstruction

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)