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Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Comparing excavated sites

More comparative studies

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Experimental Archaeology

Documentary record search

Conferences

Recording artefacts in situ

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Crafts

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Just digging

Experimental reconstruction

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Artefactual evidence