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Artefactual evidence

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Just digging

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Comparing excavated sites

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Crafts

Documentary record search

Experimental Archaeology

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Recording artefacts in situ

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

More comparative studies

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Experimental reconstruction

Conferences