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Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Artefactual evidence

Conferences

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

experimental archaeology

 

 

Crafts

& just digging

more comparative studies

 

 

Documentary record search

Recording artefacts in situ

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Comparing excavated sites

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Experimental reconstruction

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)