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Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Experimental reconstruction

Recording artefacts in situ

Just digging

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Experimental Archaeology

Artefactual evidence

Crafts

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Documentary record search

Comparing excavated sites

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

More comparative studies