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Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Conferences

Crafts

More comparative studies

Just digging

Experimental reconstruction

Artefactual evidence

Comparing excavated sites

Experimental Archaeology

Documentary record search

Recording artefacts in situ

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone