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Artefactual evidence

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Documentary record search

Conferences

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Crafts

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Experimental Archaeology

More comparative studies

Experimental reconstruction

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Recording artefacts in situ

Comparing excavated sites

Just digging