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recording artefacts in situ

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

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Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Crafts

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

experimental archaeology

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

artefactual evidence

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Conferences

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

& just digging

more comparative studies

 

 

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone