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Just digging

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Artefactual evidence

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Conferences

Experimental reconstruction

Crafts

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

More comparative studies

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Documentary record search

Experimental Archaeology

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Comparing excavated sites

Recording artefacts in situ