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recording artefacts in situ

 

comparing excavated sites

 

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Conferences

& just digging

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

experimental archaeology

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Documentary record search

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

artefactual evidence

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Crafts

more comparative studies