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Artefactual evidence

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Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Experimental reconstruction

Experimental Archaeology

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

More comparative studies

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Crafts

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Comparing excavated sites

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Conferences

Just digging

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Recording artefacts in situ

Highly vesicular bloomery slag