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Recording artefacts in situ

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Artefactual evidence

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Experimental Archaeology

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Just digging

Conferences

Experimental reconstruction

Documentary record search

Comparing excavated sites

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Crafts

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

More comparative studies

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British