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Artefactual evidence

Documentary record search

Just digging

Crafts

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Conferences

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Experimental reconstruction

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Experimental Archaeology

Comparing excavated sites

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Recording artefacts in situ

More comparative studies