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Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Just digging

Experimental Archaeology

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Comparing excavated sites

Documentary record search

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Crafts

Experimental reconstruction

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Recording artefacts in situ

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

More comparative studies

Artefactual evidence

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Conferences