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Artefactual evidence

Conferences

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Crafts

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Experimental Archaeology

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Recording artefacts in situ

Documentary record search

Experimental reconstruction

Comparing excavated sites

More comparative studies

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Just digging

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag