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recording artefacts in situ

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Conferences

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

experimental reconstruction

 

 

more comparative studies

 

 

Crafts

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Documentary record search

artefactual evidence

 

 

& just digging

experimental archaeology

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)