"In November 2001, we located and surveyed around 1000 old furnaces east of Bagan. One was excavated, and this 8 page pdf report contains a pictorial record of what we found... Field survey and initial excavation. "In November 2001, an investigation was made of a number of sites known from local informants around the villages of Zi-o and Panidwin, east of Bagan, to contain remains of furnaces and what appeared to be large quantities of ironmaking debris. The group on the field trip included U Aung Kyaing, Deputy Director General of Archaeology for Upper Myanmar, U Win Maung (Tanpawady), a classical architect and antiquarian from Mandalay, U Nyein Lwin, archaeological research officer and excavator from Bagan, and Bob Hudson, from the Archaeology Department, University of Sydney, Australia. The outcome was the survey and mapping of 12 separate sites which between them contain hundreds of furnaces, and the subsequent excavation of a furnace to determine its structure. Samples were also recovered for future radiocarbon dating, and are held at the University of Sydney and at the Archaeology Department at Bagan..."