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Artefactual evidence

Experimental reconstruction

Documentary record search

Conferences

Recording artefacts in situ

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Just digging

Comparing excavated sites

More comparative studies

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Crafts

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Experimental Archaeology