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recording artefacts in situ

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

more comparative studies

 

 

Conferences

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Documentary record search

Crafts

artefactual evidence

 

 

comparing excavated sites

 

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

& just digging

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection