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Artefactual evidence

Experimental Archaeology

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

More comparative studies

Crafts

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Just digging

Experimental reconstruction

Comparing excavated sites

Conferences

Recording artefacts in situ

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Documentary record search

Highly vesicular bloomery slag