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Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Just digging

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Comparing excavated sites

Experimental Archaeology

Artefactual evidence

Recording artefacts in situ

Documentary record search

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Conferences

More comparative studies

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Experimental reconstruction