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Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Experimental Archaeology

Just digging

Recording artefacts in situ

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Crafts

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Artefactual evidence

Conferences

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Experimental reconstruction

Documentary record search

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

More comparative studies

Comparing excavated sites