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Activity frequency mapping (iron works)
comparing excavated sites


Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)
Crafts
Conferences

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone
experimental archaeology


Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

artefactual evidence


Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British
experimental reconstruction


Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Highly vesicular bloomery slag
more comparative studies

& just digging