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Artefactual evidence

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Recording artefacts in situ

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Conferences

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Just digging

Documentary record search

Experimental Archaeology

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Experimental reconstruction

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Comparing excavated sites

Crafts

More comparative studies