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Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Conferences

Just digging

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Comparing excavated sites

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Recording artefacts in situ

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Experimental Archaeology

Crafts

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Experimental reconstruction

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Documentary record search

More comparative studies

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Artefactual evidence