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Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

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Conferences

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Experimental Archaeology

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Recording artefacts in situ

Experimental reconstruction

Comparing excavated sites

Artefactual evidence

Crafts

Just digging