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Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

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Crafts

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

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Artefactual evidence

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Just digging

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Comparing excavated sites

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Experimental reconstruction

Recording artefacts in situ

Experimental Archaeology