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Artefactual evidence

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Recording artefacts in situ

Documentary record search

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Conferences

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Just digging

Crafts

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

More comparative studies

Comparing excavated sites

Experimental reconstruction

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Experimental Archaeology

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone