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Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Crafts

Comparing excavated sites

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Just digging

Artefactual evidence

Recording artefacts in situ

Experimental reconstruction

Experimental Archaeology

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Documentary record search

More comparative studies

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Conferences

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)