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Artefactual evidence

Crafts

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Conferences

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

More comparative studies

Documentary record search

Just digging

Recording artefacts in situ

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Comparing excavated sites

Experimental reconstruction

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Experimental Archaeology

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection