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Crafts

artefactual evidence

 

 

& just digging

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Documentary record search

experimental archaeology

 

 

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

more comparative studies

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Conferences