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recording artefacts in situ

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

experimental archaeology

 

 

Crafts

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Documentary record search

artefactual evidence

 

 

more comparative studies

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Conferences

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

& just digging

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

experimental reconstruction