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Crafts

Comparing excavated sites

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Just digging

Recording artefacts in situ

More comparative studies

Experimental reconstruction

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Conferences

Documentary record search

Experimental Archaeology

Artefactual evidence