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Recording artefacts in situ

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

More comparative studies

Conferences

Experimental reconstruction

Documentary record search

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Experimental Archaeology

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Just digging

Comparing excavated sites

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Artefactual evidence

Crafts