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Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Crafts

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Conferences

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Documentary record search

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

artefactual evidence

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

experimental archaeology

 

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

more comparative studies

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

& just digging

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag