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Recording artefacts in situ

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

& just digging

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Conferences

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Comparing excavated sites

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Experimental reconstruction

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

more comparative studies

 

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

Documentary record search

Artefactual evidence

Crafts