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Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

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Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Recording artefacts in situ

Conferences

Experimental reconstruction

Just digging

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Comparing excavated sites

Experimental Archaeology

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

More comparative studies

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone