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Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Comparing excavated sites

Conferences

Crafts

Artefactual evidence

Just digging

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Experimental reconstruction

Documentary record search

Recording artefacts in situ

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

More comparative studies

Experimental Archaeology

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)