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Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Artefactual evidence

Just digging

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

More comparative studies

Experimental reconstruction

Conferences

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Comparing excavated sites

Crafts

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Documentary record search

Experimental Archaeology

Recording artefacts in situ