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Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

More comparative studies

Crafts

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Just digging

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Experimental Archaeology

Recording artefacts in situ

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Experimental reconstruction

Conferences

Documentary record search

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Comparing excavated sites

Artefactual evidence

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)