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Artefactual evidence

Just digging

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Conferences

Recording artefacts in situ

Experimental Archaeology

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

More comparative studies

Experimental reconstruction

Comparing excavated sites

Documentary record search

Crafts

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)