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Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Artefactual evidence

Experimental Archaeology

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Comparing excavated sites

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Recording artefacts in situ

More comparative studies

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Just digging

Conferences

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Crafts

Documentary record search

Experimental reconstruction

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British