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Artefactual evidence

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Just digging

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Recording artefacts in situ

Experimental Archaeology

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Comparing excavated sites

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