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Artefactual evidence

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

& just digging

Documentary record search

Comparing excavated sites

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

experimental archaeology

 

 

Conferences

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Crafts

Experimental reconstruction

more comparative studies

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Recording artefacts in situ

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British