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Recording artefacts in situ

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Crafts

Experimental reconstruction

Conferences

Just digging

Artefactual evidence

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Comparing excavated sites

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Experimental Archaeology

More comparative studies

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Documentary record search

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone