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Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Artefactual evidence

Experimental Archaeology

Documentary record search

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Comparing excavated sites

Conferences

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Crafts

Recording artefacts in situ

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Just digging

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Experimental reconstruction

More comparative studies