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Crafts

Experimental reconstruction

Just digging

Artefactual evidence

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Documentary record search

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

More comparative studies

Conferences

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Comparing excavated sites

Recording artefacts in situ

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Experimental Archaeology

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British