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Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Documentary record search

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Artefactual evidence

Recording artefacts in situ

Experimental reconstruction

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Conferences

Just digging

Experimental Archaeology

More comparative studies

Comparing excavated sites

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Crafts