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Crafts

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Experimental reconstruction

Recording artefacts in situ

Comparing excavated sites

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Conferences

Documentary record search

Artefactual evidence

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Just digging

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

More comparative studies

Experimental Archaeology

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)