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Crafts

experimental archaeology

 

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Conferences

& just digging

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Documentary record search

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone