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Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Experimental reconstruction

Crafts

Recording artefacts in situ

Comparing excavated sites

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Artefactual evidence

Just digging

Experimental Archaeology

More comparative studies

Documentary record search

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Conferences

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British