Crafts

comparing excavated sites

 

 

more comparative studies

 

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Documentary record search

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

experimental archaeology

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Conferences

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

& just digging