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Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Comparing excavated sites

Crafts

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Experimental reconstruction

Just digging

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Documentary record search

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

More comparative studies

Experimental Archaeology

Conferences

Recording artefacts in situ

Artefactual evidence