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Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone
artefactual evidence


Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Documentary record search
comparing excavated sites

Conferences
experimental reconstruction

Crafts

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)
& just digging

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection
experimental archaeology
