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Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Experimental reconstruction

Just digging

More comparative studies

Artefactual evidence

Documentary record search

Experimental Archaeology

Recording artefacts in situ

Conferences

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Comparing excavated sites