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Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Conferences
experimental reconstruction


Highly vesicular bloomery slag
artefactual evidence


Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone
comparing excavated sites

experimental archaeology


Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)
more comparative studies


Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British
& just digging
Crafts