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Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Conferences

More comparative studies

Recording artefacts in situ

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Experimental Archaeology

Comparing excavated sites

Just digging

Documentary record search

Artefactual evidence

Crafts

Experimental reconstruction

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)