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Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

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Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Comparing excavated sites

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Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Artefactual evidence

Recording artefacts in situ

Crafts

Experimental reconstruction

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

& just digging

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

experimental archaeology