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Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Comparing excavated sites

Documentary record search

Recording artefacts in situ

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Experimental Archaeology

Crafts

More comparative studies

Experimental reconstruction

Artefactual evidence

Just digging

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Conferences