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recording artefacts in situ

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

artefactual evidence

 

 

Crafts

experimental archaeology

 

 

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

more comparative studies

 

 

Documentary record search

& just digging

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Conferences

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone