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Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Artefactual evidence

Recording artefacts in situ

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Comparing excavated sites

Experimental Archaeology

Crafts

Documentary record search

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Experimental reconstruction

More comparative studies

Just digging

Conferences

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)