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Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Artefactual evidence

Just digging

Experimental reconstruction

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Comparing excavated sites

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Experimental Archaeology

Crafts

Conferences

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Recording artefacts in situ

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

More comparative studies

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