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Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Recording artefacts in situ

Artefactual evidence

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Experimental reconstruction

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Conferences

Documentary record search

Experimental Archaeology

Comparing excavated sites

Crafts

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

More comparative studies

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Just digging

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British