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Artefactual evidence

Recording artefacts in situ

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Experimental reconstruction

Crafts

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Just digging

Documentary record search

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Conferences

Comparing excavated sites

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

More comparative studies

Experimental Archaeology