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recording artefacts in situ

 

Crafts

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

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comparing excavated sites

 

 

& just digging

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

experimental archaeology

 

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

Conferences

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

more comparative studies