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Artefactual evidence

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

experimental archaeology

 

 

Recording artefacts in situ

more comparative studies

 

 

& just digging

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Conferences

Documentary record search

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Comparing excavated sites

Crafts

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Experimental reconstruction

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British