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Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Comparing excavated sites

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

More comparative studies

Experimental reconstruction

Artefactual evidence

Experimental Archaeology

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Conferences

Crafts

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Recording artefacts in situ

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Just digging

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

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