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Crafts

Recording artefacts in situ

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Experimental Archaeology

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Comparing excavated sites

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

More comparative studies

Experimental reconstruction

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Just digging

Documentary record search

Artefactual evidence

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Conferences