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Artefactual evidence

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Experimental Archaeology

Just digging

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Comparing excavated sites

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Recording artefacts in situ

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Experimental reconstruction

Conferences

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Documentary record search

More comparative studies

Crafts

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British