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recording artefacts in situ

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Conferences

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

artefactual evidence

 

 

Crafts

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Documentary record search

more comparative studies

 

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

& just digging

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag