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Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Experimental reconstruction

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Just digging

Crafts

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Experimental Archaeology

Recording artefacts in situ

Artefactual evidence

More comparative studies

Comparing excavated sites

Documentary record search

Conferences

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)