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Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Conferences

Comparing excavated sites

More comparative studies

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Crafts

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Experimental reconstruction

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Artefactual evidence

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Documentary record search

Just digging

Experimental Archaeology

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Recording artefacts in situ