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Artefactual evidence

Conferences

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Documentary record search

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Experimental reconstruction

Experimental Archaeology

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Crafts

Recording artefacts in situ

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Just digging

More comparative studies

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Comparing excavated sites

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone