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Artefactual evidence

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Experimental reconstruction

Documentary record search

Conferences

Recording artefacts in situ

Comparing excavated sites

Just digging

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Experimental Archaeology

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Crafts

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

More comparative studies

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection