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Recording artefacts in situ

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Artefactual evidence

& just digging

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Experimental reconstruction

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Crafts

Documentary record search

Comparing excavated sites

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

experimental archaeology

 

 

Conferences

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

more comparative studies

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag