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Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)
experimental reconstruction


Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Documentary record search
comparing excavated sites

& just digging
artefactual evidence


Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British
Crafts
more comparative studies


experimental archaeology

Conferences

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone