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recording artefacts in situ

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

experimental archaeology

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

artefactual evidence

 

 

Documentary record search

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Conferences

more comparative studies

 

 

Crafts

comparing excavated sites

 

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

& just digging

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone