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Crafts

artefactual evidence

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

& just digging

Documentary record search

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

experimental archaeology

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

more comparative studies

 

 

Conferences

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

comparing excavated sites