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Artefactual evidence

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Crafts

Just digging

Documentary record search

Comparing excavated sites

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

More comparative studies

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Conferences

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Experimental Archaeology

Recording artefacts in situ

Experimental reconstruction