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Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

artefactual evidence

 

 

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

more comparative studies

 

 

Documentary record search

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

experimental reconstruction

 

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Conferences

Crafts

& just digging

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone