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recording artefacts in situ

 

Crafts

more comparative studies

 

 

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

experimental archaeology

 

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

& just digging

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Conferences

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)