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Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Artefactual evidence

Conferences

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Comparing excavated sites

Experimental Archaeology

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Recording artefacts in situ

More comparative studies

Just digging

Experimental reconstruction