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Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Conferences

Crafts

Just digging

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Documentary record search

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Comparing excavated sites

More comparative studies

Experimental Archaeology

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Recording artefacts in situ

Artefactual evidence

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Experimental reconstruction