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Experimental reconstruction

Artefactual evidence

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Documentary record search

Just digging

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Crafts

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Recording artefacts in situ

Comparing excavated sites

More comparative studies

Experimental Archaeology

Conferences

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)