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Experimental Archaeology

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Crafts

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Artefactual evidence

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Recording artefacts in situ

More comparative studies

Conferences

Comparing excavated sites