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Artefactual evidence

Comparing excavated sites

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Recording artefacts in situ

Crafts

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Experimental reconstruction

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Experimental Archaeology

Documentary record search

Just digging

Conferences

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

More comparative studies

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)