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Recording artefacts in situ

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Crafts

Artefactual evidence

Experimental Archaeology

Comparing excavated sites

More comparative studies

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Documentary record search

Just digging

Conferences

Experimental reconstruction

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British