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Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Recording artefacts in situ

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Conferences

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Artefactual evidence

Comparing excavated sites

Crafts

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Documentary record search

Just digging

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Experimental reconstruction

Experimental Archaeology

More comparative studies