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Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Experimental reconstruction

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Conferences

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Artefactual evidence

Crafts

Documentary record search

More comparative studies

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Experimental Archaeology

Recording artefacts in situ

Comparing excavated sites

Just digging