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Artefactual evidence

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

More comparative studies

Crafts

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Recording artefacts in situ

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Comparing excavated sites

Experimental reconstruction

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Conferences

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Experimental Archaeology

Documentary record search

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Just digging

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)