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Just digging

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Artefactual evidence

Experimental Archaeology

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Experimental reconstruction

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Crafts

Documentary record search

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Comparing excavated sites

Conferences

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Recording artefacts in situ

More comparative studies