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Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Documentary record search

Conferences

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Artefactual evidence

Crafts

Comparing excavated sites

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Experimental Archaeology

Recording artefacts in situ

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

More comparative studies

Experimental reconstruction