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Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Just digging

Artefactual evidence

Documentary record search

Experimental Archaeology

Comparing excavated sites

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

More comparative studies

Crafts

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Experimental reconstruction

Conferences

Recording artefacts in situ