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Just digging

Recording artefacts in situ

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Crafts

Comparing excavated sites

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Documentary record search

Artefactual evidence

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Conferences

Experimental Archaeology

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

More comparative studies

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Experimental reconstruction

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)