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Activity frequency mapping (iron works)
Crafts

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Documentary record search
more comparative studies

comparing excavated sites


Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)
& just digging

experimental reconstruction

artefactual evidence

Conferences
experimental archaeology


Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Highly vesicular bloomery slag