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Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Crafts

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Experimental reconstruction

Artefactual evidence

Experimental Archaeology

Conferences

Just digging

Recording artefacts in situ

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Comparing excavated sites

Documentary record search

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

More comparative studies

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)