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Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Conferences

Artefactual evidence

Experimental reconstruction

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Documentary record search

Crafts

Experimental Archaeology

Comparing excavated sites

Just digging

Recording artefacts in situ

More comparative studies

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection