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Artefactual evidence

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Crafts

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Just digging

Conferences

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Experimental Archaeology

Recording artefacts in situ

Documentary record search

More comparative studies

Experimental reconstruction

Comparing excavated sites