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Activity frequency mapping (iron works)
Conferences

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

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

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)
experimental archaeology

Crafts
more comparative studies

comparing excavated sites


Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)
experimental reconstruction


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