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Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Artefactual evidence

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Comparing excavated sites

Experimental Archaeology

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Experimental reconstruction

More comparative studies

Conferences

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Crafts

Documentary record search

Just digging

Recording artefacts in situ