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Recording artefacts in situ

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Conferences

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Artefactual evidence

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Just digging

Crafts

Comparing excavated sites

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Experimental reconstruction

More comparative studies

Experimental Archaeology

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