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Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Experimental reconstruction

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Artefactual evidence

Conferences

Recording artefacts in situ

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Experimental Archaeology

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Crafts

More comparative studies

Documentary record search

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Just digging

Comparing excavated sites