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Crafts

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Documentary record search

more comparative studies

 

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

& just digging

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Conferences

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)