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Artefactual evidence

Experimental reconstruction

Documentary record search

Just digging

Comparing excavated sites

More comparative studies

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Conferences

Crafts

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Recording artefacts in situ

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Experimental Archaeology

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)