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Artefactual evidence

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Comparing excavated sites

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Crafts

Just digging

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Experimental Archaeology

Experimental reconstruction

Documentary record search

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

More comparative studies

Conferences

Recording artefacts in situ