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Artefactual evidence

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Comparing excavated sites

Documentary record search

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Experimental Archaeology

Recording artefacts in situ

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

More comparative studies

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Experimental reconstruction

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Conferences

Crafts

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Just digging

Highly vesicular bloomery slag