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Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Recording artefacts in situ

Experimental Archaeology

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Just digging

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Comparing excavated sites

More comparative studies

Conferences

Documentary record search

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Artefactual evidence

Crafts

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Experimental reconstruction

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection