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Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Comparing excavated sites

Recording artefacts in situ

Just digging

Documentary record search

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Crafts

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Conferences

Experimental Archaeology

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

More comparative studies

Experimental reconstruction

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Artefactual evidence

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)