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Recording artefacts in situ

Experimental Archaeology

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

More comparative studies

Experimental reconstruction

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Comparing excavated sites

Conferences

Crafts

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Artefactual evidence

Just digging

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

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