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Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

artefactual evidence

 

 

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

& just digging

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

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more comparative studies