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Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Crafts

& just digging

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Documentary record search

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

experimental archaeology

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

artefactual evidence

 

 

more comparative studies

 

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

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