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Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

& just digging

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

artefactual evidence

 

 

Documentary record search

experimental archaeology

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

more comparative studies

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

comparing excavated sites

 

 

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Conferences

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection