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Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

comparing excavated sites

 

 

more comparative studies

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

artefactual evidence

 

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

Documentary record search

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

& just digging

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Crafts

Conferences