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Just digging

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Artefactual evidence

Crafts

Comparing excavated sites

Experimental Archaeology

Experimental reconstruction

More comparative studies

Documentary record search

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Recording artefacts in situ

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Conferences

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)