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Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Crafts

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

comparing excavated sites

 

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

experimental reconstruction

 

 

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Conferences

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

artefactual evidence