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Crafts

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

experimental reconstruction

 

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

experimental archaeology

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

comparing excavated sites

 

 

more comparative studies

 

 

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Conferences

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Documentary record search

Highly vesicular bloomery slag