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Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Recording artefacts in situ

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Crafts

Comparing excavated sites

Experimental Archaeology

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Artefactual evidence

More comparative studies

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Documentary record search

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Conferences

Experimental reconstruction

Just digging

Highly vesicular bloomery slag