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recording artefacts in situ

 

& just digging

Documentary record search

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

more comparative studies

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Crafts

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

artefactual evidence

 

 

Conferences

experimental archaeology