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Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Documentary record search

Conferences

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Crafts

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

More comparative studies

Comparing excavated sites

Artefactual evidence

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Experimental Archaeology

Recording artefacts in situ

Experimental reconstruction