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Recording artefacts in situ

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Documentary record search

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Crafts

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Experimental reconstruction

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Experimental Archaeology

Just digging

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Conferences

Artefactual evidence

More comparative studies

Comparing excavated sites

Highly vesicular bloomery slag