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Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Experimental reconstruction

Crafts

Artefactual evidence

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Recording artefacts in situ

Documentary record search

Experimental Archaeology

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

More comparative studies

Conferences

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Comparing excavated sites

Just digging