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recording artefacts in situ

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

more comparative studies

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

& just digging

Documentary record search

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

artefactual evidence

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

experimental archaeology

 

 

Crafts

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Conferences

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection