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Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Artefactual evidence

Crafts

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Conferences

Documentary record search

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Recording artefacts in situ

Comparing excavated sites

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

More comparative studies

Just digging

Experimental reconstruction

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Experimental Archaeology

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)