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Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

& just digging

Documentary record search

experimental archaeology

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

more comparative studies

 

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

Crafts

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Conferences