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Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Recording artefacts in situ

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Experimental Archaeology

Just digging

Crafts

Experimental reconstruction

Artefactual evidence

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Comparing excavated sites

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Highly vesicular bloomery slag