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Just digging

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Recording artefacts in situ

Crafts

Experimental Archaeology

Documentary record search

More comparative studies

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Experimental reconstruction

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Comparing excavated sites

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Artefactual evidence

Conferences

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag