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Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Artefactual evidence

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Comparing excavated sites

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Just digging

Documentary record search

Conferences

More comparative studies

Experimental Archaeology

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Recording artefacts in situ

Experimental reconstruction

Crafts