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Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Comparing excavated sites

Recording artefacts in situ

Artefactual evidence

Crafts

Experimental reconstruction

Experimental Archaeology

Just digging

Conferences

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

More comparative studies

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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone