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Experimental reconstruction

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Crafts

Experimental Archaeology

Documentary record search

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Recording artefacts in situ

Comparing excavated sites

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Artefactual evidence

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

More comparative studies

Conferences