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Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Crafts

Comparing excavated sites

Conferences

Documentary record search

Experimental Archaeology

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Just digging

Artefactual evidence

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

More comparative studies

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Experimental reconstruction

Recording artefacts in situ