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Recording artefacts in situ

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Experimental Archaeology

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Artefactual evidence

Crafts

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Experimental reconstruction

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Comparing excavated sites

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

More comparative studies

Documentary record search

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Just digging