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Crafts

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Comparing excavated sites

Experimental Archaeology

Artefactual evidence

Just digging

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Documentary record search

Experimental reconstruction

More comparative studies

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Recording artefacts in situ