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Recording artefacts in situ

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Just digging

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Conferences

Documentary record search

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Experimental reconstruction

Comparing excavated sites

More comparative studies

Artefactual evidence

Experimental Archaeology

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Crafts

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)