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Crafts

Artefactual evidence

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Experimental Archaeology

Comparing excavated sites

Recording artefacts in situ

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Conferences

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Documentary record search

Experimental reconstruction

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Just digging

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

More comparative studies

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)