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Artefactual evidence

Crafts

Comparing excavated sites

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Experimental Archaeology

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Conferences

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Just digging

Experimental reconstruction

Documentary record search

More comparative studies

Recording artefacts in situ