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Crafts

Just digging

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

More comparative studies

Comparing excavated sites

Experimental Archaeology

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Artefactual evidence

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Recording artefacts in situ

Documentary record search

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Experimental reconstruction

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British