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Crafts

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Recording artefacts in situ

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Experimental Archaeology

Experimental reconstruction

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Artefactual evidence

Conferences

Documentary record search

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Comparing excavated sites

More comparative studies