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Crafts

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Conferences

Artefactual evidence

Recording artefacts in situ

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Comparing excavated sites

Documentary record search

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

More comparative studies

Just digging

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Experimental Archaeology

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Experimental reconstruction

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)