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A nice little video that gives a basic run-through of bloomery iron smelting.
A short slow-motion shot of iron welding showing exactly why we can expect to find hammerscale in a smithing workshop.
A free clip of a video on ethno-ironsmelting in Africa. You can buy the full video and others here.
Some basic knapping tips. Good luck finding flint like that in Ireland though.
The famous (in Ireland at least) Bronze Age beer experiment. This made the national news in Ireland perhaps revealing a little too much truth in some of our national stereotypes! Check out the guy's blog for more info.
An 'interesting' little episode on landscape archaeology from NASA I found here.
This is the first in a series of videos nicely demonstrating a number of Scandinavian flint knapping styles. 
A shortened video showing the path of the sun through the back recess at Loughcrew Cairn T
A video from National Geographic news about a Taiwanese sword maker who uses bones to infuse his swords with strength and with a soul.
A video of myself and Niall Kenny felling a fifteen year old oak tree with a bronze axe.
Collecting bog ore from an  abandoned Bord na Mona bog.
 

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