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Just digging

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Comparing excavated sites

More comparative studies

Conferences

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Documentary record search

Recording artefacts in situ

Experimental reconstruction

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Artefactual evidence

Experimental Archaeology

Crafts

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag