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Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Experimental Archaeology

Recording artefacts in situ

Just digging

More comparative studies

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Conferences

Comparing excavated sites

Artefactual evidence

Documentary record search

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Crafts

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Experimental reconstruction