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recording artefacts in situ

 

& just digging

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

artefactual evidence

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Crafts

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

more comparative studies

 

 

Conferences

Documentary record search

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

comparing excavated sites

 

 

experimental archaeology