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Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Experimental reconstruction

Documentary record search

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Crafts

Just digging

Recording artefacts in situ

Artefactual evidence

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Experimental Archaeology

Comparing excavated sites

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

More comparative studies

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Conferences

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone