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Recording artefacts in situ

Comparing excavated sites

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Documentary record search

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

More comparative studies

Just digging

Crafts

Conferences

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Experimental reconstruction

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Experimental Archaeology

Artefactual evidence