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Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Experimental reconstruction

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Conferences

Crafts

Experimental Archaeology

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Documentary record search

Artefactual evidence

Just digging

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

More comparative studies

Comparing excavated sites

Recording artefacts in situ