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Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

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


Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone
artefactual evidence

more comparative studies


Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)
Crafts
& just digging

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Documentary record search
Conferences
experimental reconstruction

experimental archaeology

