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Crafts

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Conferences

Documentary record search

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

& just digging

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

artefactual evidence

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

experimental archaeology

 

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

more comparative studies