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recording artefacts in situ

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

& just digging

Documentary record search

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Crafts

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

comparing excavated sites

 

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

more comparative studies

 

 

Conferences

experimental archaeology

 

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British