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Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

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experimental reconstruction


Highly vesicular bloomery slag
comparing excavated sites

artefactual evidence

& just digging


Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British
more comparative studies


Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)
Crafts

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection
experimental archaeology


Activity frequency mapping (iron works)
Conferences

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone