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Artefactual evidence

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Documentary record search

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Crafts

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Just digging

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Comparing excavated sites

Experimental Archaeology

More comparative studies

Experimental reconstruction

Recording artefacts in situ

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)