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Artefactual evidence

Just digging

Recording artefacts in situ

Experimental Archaeology

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Comparing excavated sites

Experimental reconstruction

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

More comparative studies

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Documentary record search

Crafts

Conferences

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)