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Crafts

Artefactual evidence

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Just digging

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Documentary record search

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

More comparative studies

Recording artefacts in situ

Conferences

Experimental Archaeology

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Comparing excavated sites

Experimental reconstruction