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recording artefacts in situ

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Documentary record search

Crafts

artefactual evidence

 

 

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

more comparative studies

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

experimental archaeology

 

 

& just digging

Conferences

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)