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Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Conferences

Just digging

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Recording artefacts in situ

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Documentary record search

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Crafts

Comparing excavated sites

Experimental reconstruction

Experimental Archaeology

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

More comparative studies

Artefactual evidence