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Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

artefactual evidence

 

 

Documentary record search

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

more comparative studies

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

comparing excavated sites

 

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

& just digging

Crafts

experimental archaeology

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)