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Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

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Conferences

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Experimental reconstruction

Recording artefacts in situ

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Comparing excavated sites

Documentary record search

Just digging

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Crafts

Artefactual evidence

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Experimental Archaeology