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Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)
Crafts
artefactual evidence

experimental archaeology

& just digging
more comparative studies


Documentary record search
comparing excavated sites


Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)
experimental reconstruction


Conferences

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British