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Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Comparing excavated sites

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Just digging

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Crafts

Recording artefacts in situ

Conferences

Documentary record search

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Artefactual evidence

More comparative studies

Experimental Archaeology

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Experimental reconstruction