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Crafts

Just digging

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Comparing excavated sites

Documentary record search

Recording artefacts in situ

Experimental reconstruction

More comparative studies

Experimental Archaeology

Artefactual evidence

Conferences

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British