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Artefactual evidence

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Conferences

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Just digging

Comparing excavated sites

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Recording artefacts in situ

Crafts

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Experimental Archaeology

Documentary record search

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Experimental reconstruction

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

More comparative studies

Highly vesicular bloomery slag