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Artefactual evidence

Experimental reconstruction

Just digging

Conferences

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Experimental Archaeology

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Documentary record search

Comparing excavated sites

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Crafts

More comparative studies

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Recording artefacts in situ