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Recording artefacts in situ

Experimental Archaeology

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Artefactual evidence

Comparing excavated sites

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Experimental reconstruction

More comparative studies

Conferences

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Just digging

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