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Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Artefactual evidence

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Recording artefacts in situ

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Documentary record search

More comparative studies

Experimental Archaeology

Conferences

Experimental reconstruction

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Just digging

Crafts

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Comparing excavated sites