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Crafts

& just digging

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

comparing excavated sites

 

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

more comparative studies

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Conferences

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Documentary record search

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)