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Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Experimental Archaeology

Just digging

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

More comparative studies

Comparing excavated sites

Crafts

Artefactual evidence

Conferences

Recording artefacts in situ

Documentary record search

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Experimental reconstruction

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British