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Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Artefactual evidence

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Documentary record search

More comparative studies

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Experimental reconstruction

Crafts

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Recording artefacts in situ

Experimental Archaeology

Just digging

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Comparing excavated sites

Conferences