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Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Conferences

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Documentary record search

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Experimental Archaeology

Comparing excavated sites

Just digging

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

More comparative studies

Experimental reconstruction

Recording artefacts in situ

Crafts

Artefactual evidence