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Crafts

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

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Artefactual evidence

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Comparing excavated sites

Experimental reconstruction

Recording artefacts in situ

Just digging

Conferences

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Experimental Archaeology

Documentary record search

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection