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Crafts

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Comparing excavated sites

experimental archaeology

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Artefactual evidence

Documentary record search

more comparative studies

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Recording artefacts in situ

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Conferences

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Experimental reconstruction

& just digging