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Recording artefacts in situ

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Documentary record search

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Experimental Archaeology

Conferences

Crafts

Artefactual evidence

More comparative studies

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Experimental reconstruction

Just digging

Comparing excavated sites