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Recording artefacts in situ

Comparing excavated sites

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Artefactual evidence

Crafts

Documentary record search

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Experimental Archaeology

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

More comparative studies

Conferences

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Just digging

Experimental reconstruction