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recording artefacts in situ

 

Crafts

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Conferences

artefactual evidence

 

 

Documentary record search

experimental reconstruction

 

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

& just digging

more comparative studies

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British