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Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

& just digging

Recording artefacts in situ

Comparing excavated sites

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Crafts

Artefactual evidence

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Documentary record search

experimental archaeology

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

more comparative studies

 

 

Conferences

Experimental reconstruction

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British