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Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Documentary record search

Just digging

More comparative studies

Experimental Archaeology

Crafts

Artefactual evidence

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Comparing excavated sites

Conferences

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Recording artefacts in situ

Experimental reconstruction