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Crafts

Comparing excavated sites

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Experimental reconstruction

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Documentary record search

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Conferences

Artefactual evidence

More comparative studies

Just digging

Recording artefacts in situ

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Experimental Archaeology