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Recording artefacts in situ

Crafts

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Documentary record search

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Comparing excavated sites

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

More comparative studies

Experimental Archaeology

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Just digging

Conferences

Artefactual evidence

Experimental reconstruction

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)