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Artefactual evidence

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Documentary record search

Crafts

Experimental Archaeology

More comparative studies

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Experimental reconstruction

Comparing excavated sites

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Recording artefacts in situ

Conferences

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Just digging

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone