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Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)


Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)
comparing excavated sites


Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone
& just digging

Documentary record search
experimental archaeology


Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British
more comparative studies

artefactual evidence

Crafts
experimental reconstruction

Conferences