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Activity frequency mapping (iron works)
comparing excavated sites

Conferences

Highly vesicular bloomery slag
experimental archaeology

more comparative studies

experimental reconstruction

Crafts

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

artefactual evidence


Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Documentary record search
& just digging