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Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Recording artefacts in situ

Documentary record search

Experimental Archaeology

More comparative studies

Comparing excavated sites

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Experimental reconstruction

Just digging

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Crafts

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Artefactual evidence

Highly vesicular bloomery slag