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Artefactual evidence

Recording artefacts in situ

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Comparing excavated sites

Crafts

More comparative studies

Just digging

Experimental reconstruction

Documentary record search

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Experimental Archaeology

Conferences

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)