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Crafts

& just digging

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

more comparative studies

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Documentary record search

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

experimental archaeology

 

 

Conferences

artefactual evidence

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British