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Crafts

Experimental reconstruction

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

experimental archaeology

 

 

Conferences

Documentary record search

more comparative studies

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Recording artefacts in situ

Comparing excavated sites

& just digging

Artefactual evidence