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Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

More comparative studies

Artefactual evidence

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Crafts

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Experimental Archaeology

Recording artefacts in situ

Comparing excavated sites

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Experimental reconstruction