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Documentary record search

& just digging

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

experimental archaeology

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

more comparative studies

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Conferences

Crafts

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)