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recording artefacts in situ

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

& just digging

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

artefactual evidence

 

 

Conferences

Documentary record search

more comparative studies

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

experimental archaeology

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Crafts