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Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Crafts

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

& just digging

comparing excavated sites

 

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

artefactual evidence

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

more comparative studies

 

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Documentary record search

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British