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Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

& just digging

Recording artefacts in situ

more comparative studies

 

 

Artefactual evidence

Documentary record search

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Crafts

experimental archaeology

 

 

Experimental reconstruction

Conferences

Comparing excavated sites

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British