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Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Experimental reconstruction

Crafts

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Comparing excavated sites

More comparative studies

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Recording artefacts in situ

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Conferences

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Artefactual evidence

Experimental Archaeology

Just digging

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British