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Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Conferences

experimental archaeology

 

 

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

& just digging

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Documentary record search

more comparative studies

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

experimental reconstruction

 

 

artefactual evidence