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Crafts

& just digging

more comparative studies

 

 

Documentary record search

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

experimental archaeology

 

 

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

artefactual evidence

 

 

Conferences

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

experimental reconstruction