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Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Experimental Archaeology

Documentary record search

More comparative studies

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Experimental reconstruction

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Conferences

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Artefactual evidence

Recording artefacts in situ

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Crafts

Comparing excavated sites