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recording artefacts in situ

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

comparing excavated sites

 

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

Documentary record search

Conferences

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

experimental reconstruction

 

 

& just digging

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Crafts

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

artefactual evidence

 

 

more comparative studies

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)