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Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Conferences

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Documentary record search

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Recording artefacts in situ

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Crafts

Experimental Archaeology

More comparative studies

Comparing excavated sites

Just digging

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Artefactual evidence

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Experimental reconstruction