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Crafts

Just digging

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

More comparative studies

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Conferences

Artefactual evidence

Recording artefacts in situ

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Documentary record search

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Experimental Archaeology

Comparing excavated sites

Experimental reconstruction