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Just digging

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Experimental reconstruction

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Comparing excavated sites

Crafts

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

More comparative studies

Recording artefacts in situ

Conferences

Artefactual evidence

Experimental Archaeology

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