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Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Just digging

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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Experimental reconstruction

Comparing excavated sites

Recording artefacts in situ

Experimental Archaeology

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Crafts

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Artefactual evidence