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Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Crafts

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Artefactual evidence

Recording artefacts in situ

Just digging

Documentary record search

Conferences

Comparing excavated sites

More comparative studies

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Experimental reconstruction

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Experimental Archaeology

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British