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Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection
Conferences

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British
comparing excavated sites

experimental reconstruction

experimental archaeology

& just digging

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone
Crafts

Documentary record search

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


Highly vesicular bloomery slag
more comparative studies


Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)