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Artefactual evidence

More comparative studies

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Recording artefacts in situ

Comparing excavated sites

Experimental Archaeology

Conferences

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Documentary record search

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Experimental reconstruction

Just digging

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Crafts

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)