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Recording artefacts in situ

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Just digging

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Conferences

Comparing excavated sites

More comparative studies

Crafts

Documentary record search

Artefactual evidence

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Experimental reconstruction

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Experimental Archaeology

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)