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Recording artefacts in situ

& just digging

Artefactual evidence

experimental archaeology

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Crafts

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Documentary record search

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Experimental reconstruction

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

more comparative studies

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Conferences

Comparing excavated sites

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone