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Artefactual evidence

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Experimental reconstruction

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Recording artefacts in situ

Experimental Archaeology

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Comparing excavated sites

Just digging

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Crafts

Conferences