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Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Just digging

Artefactual evidence

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Crafts

Experimental Archaeology

Experimental reconstruction

Recording artefacts in situ

More comparative studies

Comparing excavated sites

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Conferences

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Documentary record search

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection