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artefactual evidence

 

 

Crafts

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Documentary record search

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

more comparative studies

 

 

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

& just digging

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection