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Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Experimental Archaeology

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Experimental reconstruction

Comparing excavated sites

Artefactual evidence

Recording artefacts in situ

More comparative studies

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Just digging

Crafts

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)