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Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Experimental reconstruction

Just digging

Crafts

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Comparing excavated sites

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Documentary record search

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Artefactual evidence

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Conferences

Recording artefacts in situ

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Experimental Archaeology