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Crafts

experimental archaeology

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

more comparative studies

 

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Documentary record search

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Conferences

& just digging