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Recording artefacts in situ

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Documentary record search

Experimental reconstruction

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

experimental archaeology

 

 

Artefactual evidence

Comparing excavated sites

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

more comparative studies

 

 

Conferences

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Crafts

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

& just digging

Highly vesicular bloomery slag