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Crafts

Comparing excavated sites

Experimental Archaeology

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Artefactual evidence

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Recording artefacts in situ

Conferences

Documentary record search

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Experimental reconstruction

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Just digging

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

More comparative studies

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British