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recording artefacts in situ

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Conferences

artefactual evidence

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Documentary record search

& just digging

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

experimental archaeology

 

 

more comparative studies

 

 

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Crafts

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British