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Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Crafts

Comparing excavated sites

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Conferences

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Documentary record search

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Recording artefacts in situ

Experimental reconstruction

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Experimental Archaeology

Artefactual evidence

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

More comparative studies

Just digging