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Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Just digging

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Recording artefacts in situ

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Crafts

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Documentary record search

Conferences

Experimental Archaeology

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

More comparative studies

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Artefactual evidence

Experimental reconstruction

Comparing excavated sites