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Recording artefacts in situ

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Just digging

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Experimental Archaeology

Crafts

More comparative studies

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Artefactual evidence

Experimental reconstruction

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Comparing excavated sites

Documentary record search

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Conferences