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Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)
experimental reconstruction


Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British
comparing excavated sites

& just digging

Highly vesicular bloomery slag
artefactual evidence



Documentary record search
more comparative studies


Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone
experimental archaeology


Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)
Conferences
Crafts

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection