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Recording artefacts in situ

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

More comparative studies

Crafts

Experimental Archaeology

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Artefactual evidence

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Documentary record search

Experimental reconstruction

Just digging

Conferences

Comparing excavated sites