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Recording artefacts in situ

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Just digging

Comparing excavated sites

Documentary record search

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Crafts

Artefactual evidence

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Conferences

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

More comparative studies

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Experimental Archaeology

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Experimental reconstruction