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Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Documentary record search

Artefactual evidence

Conferences

Comparing excavated sites

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Experimental reconstruction

Recording artefacts in situ

Experimental Archaeology

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone