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Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Comparing excavated sites

Experimental reconstruction

More comparative studies

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Just digging

Conferences

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Crafts

Recording artefacts in situ

Documentary record search

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Artefactual evidence

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Experimental Archaeology