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Artefactual evidence

Experimental reconstruction

More comparative studies

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Documentary record search

Just digging

Comparing excavated sites

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Conferences

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Experimental Archaeology

Recording artefacts in situ

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Crafts