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Crafts

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

More comparative studies

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Documentary record search

Recording artefacts in situ

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Experimental Archaeology

Artefactual evidence

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Just digging

Conferences

Experimental reconstruction

Comparing excavated sites