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Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Comparing excavated sites

Conferences

Artefactual evidence

Recording artefacts in situ

Experimental reconstruction

Documentary record search

Just digging

Experimental Archaeology

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

More comparative studies

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British