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Artefactual evidence

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Experimental reconstruction

Comparing excavated sites

Just digging

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Recording artefacts in situ

Experimental Archaeology

More comparative studies

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Crafts

Conferences

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Documentary record search

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag