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Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Just digging

Comparing excavated sites

Artefactual evidence

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Documentary record search

Experimental reconstruction

Conferences

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Recording artefacts in situ

Experimental Archaeology

More comparative studies

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Highly vesicular bloomery slag