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Artefactual evidence

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Just digging

Crafts

Recording artefacts in situ

Comparing excavated sites

Conferences

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Documentary record search

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Experimental reconstruction

More comparative studies

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Experimental Archaeology