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Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Crafts

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Just digging

Experimental reconstruction

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Recording artefacts in situ

Documentary record search

Artefactual evidence

More comparative studies

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Conferences

Experimental Archaeology

Comparing excavated sites