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Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

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Artefactual evidence

Just digging

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Crafts

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Comparing excavated sites

Recording artefacts in situ

Experimental reconstruction

Conferences

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Experimental Archaeology

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone