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Recording artefacts in situ

Crafts

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Conferences

Experimental reconstruction

Artefactual evidence

Documentary record search

Comparing excavated sites

Just digging

More comparative studies

Experimental Archaeology

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag