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Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Experimental Archaeology

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Conferences

Comparing excavated sites

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Crafts

Just digging

Documentary record search

More comparative studies

Recording artefacts in situ

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Experimental reconstruction

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Artefactual evidence

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Highly vesicular bloomery slag