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Artefactual evidence

Documentary record search

Recording artefacts in situ

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Comparing excavated sites

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Just digging

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Experimental reconstruction

More comparative studies

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Crafts

Experimental Archaeology

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone