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recording artefacts in situ

 

Crafts

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

experimental reconstruction

 

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

& just digging

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

more comparative studies

 

 

Conferences

Documentary record search

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

experimental archaeology