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Conferences

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Crafts

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Comparing excavated sites

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Artefactual evidence

Experimental reconstruction

More comparative studies

Experimental Archaeology

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Documentary record search

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Recording artefacts in situ