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Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

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Experimental reconstruction

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Artefactual evidence

Experimental Archaeology

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Crafts

Conferences

More comparative studies

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Comparing excavated sites

Just digging

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Recording artefacts in situ

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)