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Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Just digging

Artefactual evidence

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Experimental Archaeology

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Crafts

Conferences

Experimental reconstruction

Documentary record search

Comparing excavated sites

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Recording artefacts in situ