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Artefactual evidence

Recording artefacts in situ

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Experimental reconstruction

More comparative studies

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Experimental Archaeology

Conferences

Documentary record search

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Crafts

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Just digging

Comparing excavated sites

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)