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Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Documentary record search

Just digging

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Recording artefacts in situ

More comparative studies

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Artefactual evidence

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Comparing excavated sites

Experimental Archaeology

Experimental reconstruction

Crafts

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Conferences