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Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Crafts

Just digging

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Documentary record search

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Artefactual evidence

Experimental Archaeology

Conferences

Comparing excavated sites

More comparative studies

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Recording artefacts in situ

Experimental reconstruction