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Crafts

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

artefactual evidence

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Documentary record search

& just digging

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

experimental archaeology

 

 

Conferences

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)