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Recording artefacts in situ

Crafts

Experimental reconstruction

Conferences

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Documentary record search

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

More comparative studies

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Experimental Archaeology

Just digging

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Comparing excavated sites

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Artefactual evidence