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Activity frequency mapping (iron works)


Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)
Crafts
& just digging
more comparative studies

comparing excavated sites

experimental reconstruction


Documentary record search
experimental archaeology


Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection
artefactual evidence


Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone
Conferences