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Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Artefactual evidence

Comparing excavated sites

Conferences

Experimental reconstruction

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Crafts

Just digging

Documentary record search

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Experimental Archaeology

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

More comparative studies

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Recording artefacts in situ

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)