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Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Artefactual evidence

Experimental Archaeology

Comparing excavated sites

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Crafts

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Recording artefacts in situ

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

More comparative studies

Just digging

Documentary record search

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Conferences

Experimental reconstruction

Highly vesicular bloomery slag