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Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Documentary record search

Comparing excavated sites

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Crafts

Recording artefacts in situ

Experimental reconstruction

More comparative studies

Just digging

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Artefactual evidence

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Experimental Archaeology

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Highly vesicular bloomery slag