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Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Experimental Archaeology

Crafts

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Documentary record search

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Artefactual evidence

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Conferences

Comparing excavated sites

Recording artefacts in situ

Experimental reconstruction

More comparative studies