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Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Recording artefacts in situ

Documentary record search

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Just digging

Comparing excavated sites

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Experimental reconstruction

Artefactual evidence

Crafts

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Conferences

Experimental Archaeology

More comparative studies

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)