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artefactual evidence

 

 

& just digging

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Conferences

Crafts

more comparative studies

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

experimental archaeology

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

comparing excavated sites

 

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Documentary record search

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)