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Artefactual evidence

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Comparing excavated sites

Recording artefacts in situ

Crafts

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Experimental Archaeology

Conferences

Experimental reconstruction

Documentary record search

More comparative studies

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Just digging