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Experimental reconstruction

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Conferences

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

More comparative studies

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Just digging

Documentary record search

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Crafts

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Recording artefacts in situ

Experimental Archaeology

Comparing excavated sites

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Artefactual evidence

Highly vesicular bloomery slag