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Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Conferences

Just digging

Documentary record search

Recording artefacts in situ

Artefactual evidence

Experimental Archaeology

Experimental reconstruction

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Comparing excavated sites

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Crafts

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

More comparative studies