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Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Just digging

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Experimental reconstruction

Artefactual evidence

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Crafts

Recording artefacts in situ

Comparing excavated sites

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Experimental Archaeology

Conferences

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

More comparative studies

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