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Recording artefacts in situ

Experimental Archaeology

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Comparing excavated sites

More comparative studies

Crafts

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Just digging

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Experimental reconstruction

Documentary record search

Conferences

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Artefactual evidence

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)