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Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)
comparing excavated sites


Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection
Conferences

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)
experimental archaeology

experimental reconstruction

& just digging


Activity frequency mapping (iron works)
artefactual evidence

Crafts
more comparative studies
