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Just digging

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Comparing excavated sites

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Artefactual evidence

Conferences

Recording artefacts in situ

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Documentary record search

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

More comparative studies

Experimental reconstruction

Crafts

Experimental Archaeology