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Crafts

Just digging

Conferences

Recording artefacts in situ

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Experimental Archaeology

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Comparing excavated sites

More comparative studies

Experimental reconstruction

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Documentary record search

Artefactual evidence