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Artefactual evidence

Conferences

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Just digging

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Experimental Archaeology

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Crafts

Comparing excavated sites

More comparative studies

Recording artefacts in situ

Documentary record search

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Experimental reconstruction