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Crafts

artefactual evidence

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

experimental archaeology

 

 

more comparative studies

 

 

Conferences

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Documentary record search

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

experimental reconstruction