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Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

More comparative studies

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

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Experimental Archaeology

Conferences

Experimental reconstruction

Artefactual evidence

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Comparing excavated sites

Recording artefacts in situ

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Crafts

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British