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Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Crafts

Conferences

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Comparing excavated sites

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Artefactual evidence

Recording artefacts in situ

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

More comparative studies

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Experimental Archaeology

Just digging

Experimental reconstruction