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recording artefacts in situ

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

more comparative studies

 

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

Crafts

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Documentary record search

Conferences

& just digging