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Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Just digging

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Artefactual evidence

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Experimental reconstruction

Comparing excavated sites

Experimental Archaeology

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Recording artefacts in situ

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

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Highly vesicular bloomery slag