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Recording artefacts in situ

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Experimental reconstruction

Artefactual evidence

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

More comparative studies

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Just digging

Crafts

Comparing excavated sites

Conferences

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Documentary record search

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Experimental Archaeology