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Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Documentary record search

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Just digging

Recording artefacts in situ

Experimental Archaeology

Comparing excavated sites

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

More comparative studies

Artefactual evidence

Conferences

Experimental reconstruction

Crafts

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)