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Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Crafts

experimental archaeology

 

 

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Documentary record search

& just digging

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

artefactual evidence

 

 

more comparative studies

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection