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Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Conferences

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Artefactual evidence

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Crafts

Comparing excavated sites

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Recording artefacts in situ

More comparative studies

Documentary record search

Experimental Archaeology

Just digging

Experimental reconstruction

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)