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Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Just digging

Experimental reconstruction

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

More comparative studies

Comparing excavated sites

Crafts

Experimental Archaeology

Recording artefacts in situ

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Documentary record search

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Conferences

Artefactual evidence