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Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Documentary record search

Comparing excavated sites

Conferences

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Just digging

Recording artefacts in situ

Crafts

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Experimental Archaeology

More comparative studies

Artefactual evidence

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Experimental reconstruction