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Artefactual evidence

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

More comparative studies

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Experimental reconstruction

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Experimental Archaeology

Just digging

Recording artefacts in situ

Conferences

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Documentary record search

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Crafts

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Comparing excavated sites