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Artefactual evidence

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Comparing excavated sites

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Experimental reconstruction

Recording artefacts in situ

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Crafts

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Experimental Archaeology