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Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)
Crafts

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British
experimental reconstruction


Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)
experimental archaeology


Documentary record search
Conferences
comparing excavated sites


artefactual evidence

& just digging