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Artefactual evidence

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Just digging

Documentary record search

Recording artefacts in situ

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Conferences

More comparative studies

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Experimental reconstruction

Crafts

Experimental Archaeology

Comparing excavated sites

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection